Hello all,
When we do adduser or useradd at the shell,what is the default
password assigned for that new user?

Thanks
regards-
kaushal



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Hi Kaushal

I don't know if there is (or which is) a default password assigned for a
new user created usind useradd, but after the definition of a new user (for
example "patata") you can change his password using the passwd command in
this way (being root!):

[root [at] obelix /usr/local/users]# passwd patata
Changing password for user patata.
New password: <PUT PASSWORD HERE>
Retype new password: <CONFIRM PASSWORD HERE>
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root [at] obelix /usr/local/users]#

Hope this can help you.

Pedro




05/10/2004 10:24
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Hello all,
When we do adduser or useradd at the shell,what is the default
password assigned for that new user?

Thanks
regards-
kaushal



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> Hello all,
> When we do adduser or useradd at the shell,what is the default
> password assigned for that new user?

# useradd testing
# cat /etc/shadow | grep testing
testing:!:12696:0:99999:7:::

Here you can see that the password hash is '!'. This isn't a valid password
hash. You can't login with this password.

Lothar
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At 10/5/2004 01:54 PM +0530, kaushal asked:
>When we do adduser or useradd at the shell,what is the default password
>assigned for that new user?

man useradd (on RHES3) says:
-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3). The default is
to disable the account.

--
Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel [at] cesmail.net>


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There is no default password. The account can not be logged into until it
is given a password.
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Subject: default password


> Hello all,
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